“It’s just a political contest, nothing to do with singing and the rest of the world do not like Britain.

“We may as well stop entering.”

And Susanna K wrote: “What a bad taste Europe.

“Eurovision is officially a political freak show.”

A YouGov poll showed 75 per cent of Britons think Britain normally doesn't have a chance at the Eurovision because EU and international politics are reflected in the voting.

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Eurovision 2018: 75 per cent of Brits believe votes at the Eurovision are influenced by politics

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Eurovision 2018: Viewers took to Twitter to blast the jury's decision

William Lee Adams, founder of Wiwibloggs, told Express.co.uk that trying to “rationalise a poor result by blaming Brexit, political voting or even reaction to the Skripal poisoning” would mean looking for excuses.

He added: “I seriously doubt that sixteen-year old girls in Moldova and drunk party-goers in Sweden will be voting on anything other than the music."

British act SuRie also claimed before the show that political conversation, despite “being important” would not be important during the voting process.

She added: “Having been to Eurovision before I’ve seen first-hand the music and the song are the driving force at the top of the leaderboard.

"If a song speaks to someone I don’t think they pause on their phone and go ‘Hold on let me think about their political agenda’."

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F.Y.R Macedonia, member of the so-called Balkans bloc, distributed its point almost only among Eastern countries, giving 12 points to Estonia, 10 to Cyprus, 8 to Serbia, 6 to Albania, 4 to Czech Republic and 2 to Slovenia.

And Croatia awarded with 12 points Lithuania, with 8 Moldova and with 7 Bulgaria.

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Eurovision 2018: The contest was won by Israeli singer Netta Barzilai

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Eurovision 2018: Brits were in disbelief as SuRie came third-last

This partisanship seems to leave out the “Big Five”, Germany, Britain, France, Spain and Italy, which qualify for the final act automatically but rarely help anyone during the voting process.

Fears that the juries’ choices don’t award the quality of the songs have been fuelled by the stark dissimilarities found between their points awarded and the ones given by the public vote, which dramatically changed the chart.

Italy, which had been relegated by juries to the second half of the rank with just 59 points, came fifth with 308 points.